Collected Plays by Coward Noel, First Edition (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Slightly Chipped and Frayed. 1st Edition. BOOK,VOL. V. CORNERS BUMPPED, VOL. VI. DJ, BOOK FINE. YOU COULD BY IT SEPARATEELY, $ 25 EACH.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, 1st edition, pp. 537. Overall Very Good condition. Publisher's light blue cloth with embossed signature in gilt. Gilt lettering to spine within a black panel. Dust Jacket has turned yellowish on the underside. Considerable toning to spine, minor soiling to front, soiling and discolouration to reverse covers. Otherwise in Very Good condition. This volume contains the following plays: Point Valaine, South Sea Bubble, Ace of clubs, Nude with violin, Waiting in the wings.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. "First Published 1958" stated. Near fine plus, if not fine hardback in near fine plus, if not fine price-clipped dust jacket. Only trivial signs of age/war/previous use to book and dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. No additional dates, editions or printings indicated. Near fine, if not near fine plus or fine hardback in near fine, if not near fine plus dust jacket (42s NET). Spine of dust jacket moderately faded. Only trivial, if any additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Hardback. Large 8vo.pp.711. Signed presentation from the author to fashion-house director Ginette Spanier:"For Ginette with love, Noel." Plays include: The youg Idea; Sirocco; The Rat Trap; Home Chat; and the Marquise. Original publisher's cloth binding in red with slightly faded gilt lettering on black title label at spine. /Jenny Yvonne "Ginette" Spanier (1904-1988) was director of the House of Balmain, Paris 1947 to 1976. She was decorated for her wartime work, awarded the Medal of Freedom for assisting the American Army of Liberation Her husband Paul-Emile Seidmann was made a Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur for his work with concentration camp survivors. Near very good. Very slight rubbing of covers. Spine slightly dull. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A Fine, clean copy in a Fine bright orange dustwrapper. 537pp. Includes Point Valaine, South Sea Bubble, Ace of Clubs, Nude with Violin and Waiting in the Wings. Quite the nicest copy you will find anywhere. Q05542.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A Fine copy in grey cloth, in a Fine violet colored dustwrapper, clipped (but not for price). 625pp. Includes Pacific 1860, "Peace In Our Time," Relative Values, Quadrille and Blithe Spirit. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. Uncommon. Q06211.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Original grey cloth, the spine lettered in gilt to a black label, the author's signature stamped in gilt to the front panel, the publisher's monogram in blind to the lower edge of the rear panel, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. Fore- and upper page block edges a little toned, with a couple of tiny diagonal creases to the upper outer corners of a handful of pages. In the lightly toned dustwrapper, nicked to corners and spine tips, the rubbed upper spine edge with a couple of short (near) closed tears to the folds. Not price-clipped (25s net to the front flap). Altogether, a sound, presentable copy with an inscription showing the author's talent for wordplay. Inscribed by the author in red ink to the front free endpaper, "For Polly Mill / with, love / Noël". The recipient, homophonically addressed, is Paul-Emile Seidmann, a doctor married to Ginette Spanier, director of the House of Balmain, the fashion house founded by Pierre Balmain and patronised by such luminaries as Ava Gardner, Brigitte Bardot, and Marlene Dietrich. Coward met the couple while holidaying in France during the summer of 1946 and they became, according to the editors of Coward's diaries, the "closest of Noël's Parisian friends", amply borne out in the number of affectionate mentions of the couple in the diary itself. Philip Hoare, in his biography of Coward, notes that the author affectionately nicknamed Seidmann 'Marie-Antoinette'. Coward also smuggles Seidmann's name (without the final 'n') into his 1959 play 'Look After Lulu!' (an adaptation of a Feydeau farce) as 'Mayor of the District' (the name mentioned just once). ('The Noël Coward Diaries' edited by Graham Payn and Sheridan Morley [London, 1982]; Philip Hoare, 'Noël Coward: A Biography' [London, 1995]; Cole B-78). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.